git does not list all branches listed by git-tfs

I initialized a repo via

git tfs clone https://my/tfs/DefaultCollection $/My/MainBranch

it also initialized some other branches, i guess due to merge changesets. The left out branches were initialized via f.e.

git tfs branch --init $/My/Release/Release 4.2

If i issue a

git branch

it lists

  Releases/Release4.2
  Releases/Release4.4
  Releases/Release5.5
* master

So only the branches that have been initialized manually with the git tfs branch --init command. If i do a

git tfs branch

it lists:

Git-tfs remote details:

 Releases/Release5.0 -> https://my/tfs/DefaultCollection $/Product/Releases/Release 5.0
        refs/remotes/tfs/Releases/Release5.0 - 91467e33ea467f66de214c164843038cbeaf07f7 @ 15081

 Releases/Release3.0 -> https://my/tfs/DefaultCollection $/Product/Releases/Release 3.0
        refs/remotes/tfs/Releases/Release3.0 - 04e538a215502c6ba111e5d8358c79a8f8bf265f @ 10684

MUCH MORE...

 Releases/Release4.2 -> https://my/tfs/DefaultCollection $/Product/Releases/Release 4.2
        refs/remotes/tfs/Releases/Release4.2 - a7172305a46c950a7b7a5ab1fd90be51ebffd9c3 @ 13102

How can I get the branches initialized automatically into my git repo?

If i do a

git tfs branch --init "$/Product/Releases/Release 5.0" --debug

I get:

Command run:git tfs branch --init $/Product/Releases/Release 5.0 --debug
No authors file used.
git-tfs version 0.25.0.0 (TFS client library 14.0.0.0 (MS)) (64-bit)
git command: Starting process: git --version
git command time: [00:00:00.0227688] --version
Commits visited count:1
warning : There is already a remote for this tfs branch. Branch ignored!

EDIT: I recognized that for all manually created branches there is a .git/refs/heads/…/BranchName file. For all branches automatically initialized this file is missing.

[danielbisar]

Ok there was something missing in your command. The following works as expected

git checkout -b Release2.6 remotes/tfs/Releases/Release2.6

thanks.

[spraints]

But i am not sure why git tfs does not created this file when doing git tfs clone https://my/tfs/DefaultCollection $/My/MainBranch

git-tfs is just trying to set up one branch for you in this case. git-tfs is kind of acting like git clone. If you git clone https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs and run git branch, it only lists master even though there are more branches than that. The difference is that when you run git checkout better-releasing in the git-tfs clone, git recognizes that there’s an origin/better-releasing and automatically sets that up a local branch for you. git checkout -b Release2.6 tfs/Releases/Release2.6 does basically the same thing (start a local “Release2.6” branch, starting from “tfs/Releases/Release2.6”).